Game-board.



a No. 726,023. PATENTED APR. 21, 1903. H. BIISGH & A. JAEGER.

GAME BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 22, 1902.

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UNITED STATES? OFFICE.

HENRY BUSOH AND ARTHUR JAEGER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

'GAME-FBUOARD.

srncrnrcnrron forming part of Letters Patent No. 726,023, dated. April 21, 1903.

Application filed my 22, 1902.

Serial No. 116,541. (No in.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY BUSOH and AR- THUR J AEGER, citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kingsand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved-Game-Board, of which the following is a full, clear,land exact description.

This invention relates to i'mprovementsin drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which is shown a plan view of agamesboard' embodying'our invention. I

As a preliminary we will state thatrthe movable devices for each player consist ofa.

captain and guards for each oaptaimthe captains being movable in prescribed lines leading to a safetyor winning position at thecenter of the board, while theguards are movable in any direction along lines on the board for the purposeof protecting andopening the ways for the captains.

Extended across the board are sets of parallel lines 1, andalso extended across the board in the opposite direction to the lines 1 is another series of parallel lines 2. Starting from one side of the board at the center of the first line 2 is a line 3, on which a captain is designed to move. A similar line 4 for the opposing captain leads from the opposite side of the board, and both these lines terminate in a central field or winning-space 5, and each line, it will be noted, is irregular or circuitous. We have shown each of these lines as outlining in the course of its length the configuration of a star; but the invention, it must be understood, is not confined to any particular shape. The field within each starshaped figure is of a different color than that of the central space 5, and the board is divided by different colorssa y by blue and gray-at the center.

It may here be stated that we propose call ing the game the f Blue and Gray, and the inen or devices movable thereon from opposite sides willrepresent soldiers of opposing "armiesl V,

' In playing the game the captains are to be placed on their respective starting'-points,and arranged on each side of each captain are the guards, these guards being-seton the junc .',tions of thefirst and second lines 2 and the linesl crossing-the same. As'before stated, "eachplayer makes an effort to move his captain into the safety or winning central position, and the opposing playerwill make an effort to prevent such entrance of -his opponents captain by moving hisownguards. These guards may be moved crosswise, back-- was, or'forwardon any of{ the line s,and the j guards of one player may take the guards of the opposingplayer by jumping the opposing players guards. One;t wo,;three, four, or :more, jumps ,m'ay be made, 'Vprovided the guards to be taken are in proper sequence such, for instance, as in-the'ga 'ne of checkers.' A guard cannot be taken'by'a captain, 'and therefore should anopposingguard be in'theline of movementof a captain the said opposing guard must be taken'or forced away by the guards-belonging to the side of said captain. The captain first entering the central space wins'the'game.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent A game-board having delineated thereon two opposing fields, two sets of parallel lines, one set being at right angles to the other set, a central space or field, and circuitous lines leading from opposite sides to the central space or field, the said lines intersecting with the first-named lines and each circuitous line having a portion extended. into the opposing field. v i

I In testimony WherOffwe haVesig'ned our names to this specification-,in'the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

"HENRY BUSGH. ARTHUR JAEGER. Witnesses:

. CHAS. VAN SALZER,

WILLIAM OPPENLANDER. 

